Defender of the underdog
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference about the internet release of secret documents about the Iraq War, in London October 23, 2010. Wikileaks released nearly 400,000 classified US files on the Iraq war, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the US military knew about but did not seem to investigate. Assange is described by those he has worked with as highly intelligent, determined, intense and at times paranoid.